Why I Worry

"The energy that actually shapes the world springs from
emotions -- racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of
war -- which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms,
and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to
have lost all power of action ... [H.G. Wells] was, and
still is, quite incapable of understanding that nationalism, religious
bigotry and feudal loyalty are far more powerful forces than what he
himself would describe as sanity."

And we appease or ignore those forces at our peril.

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